PE course in educational institutions is generally divided into theory and activity classes, with the latter as the main form. In light of teaching tasks and students' conditions, institutions of higher learning and secondary specialized schools open respectively general PE course, courses of particular events, promotion and healthcare £» primary and secondary schools open chiefly general PE course, while some senior secondary schools also open course of particular events on a trial basis. The course in higher grades of primary schools conducts teaching in unisex groups and groups based on health conditions, and pays special attention to activities in small groups in the teaching process, so as to cultivate students' interpersonal relationship, and promote their enthusiastic, initiative and creative learning.

PE course in educational institutions emphasizes on combination of PE with health education. It focuses on PE awareness and fostering of sports' habits in physical exercises. Through passing on of knowledge and PE skills, and physical exercises, it also pays attention to generating students' interest in sports, developing their personality and promoting their over-all development in terms of both body and psychology, so as to lay a basis for life-long physical training. PE courses also pay attention to students' cultivation of sanitation habits and health care awareness£® Primary and secondary schools provide one class hour of health education every two weeks. Institutions of higher learning offer health education as selective course or lectures as requested. Efforts are made to prevention of school common diseases, such as short-sightedness, trachoma, decayed tooth, malnutrition, anemia, and a document of Program for Comprehensive Prevention and Treatment of Common Diseases among Students was issue as a result.